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Papers, 1764-1886
Author
Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886.
Pages:
30
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Papers, 1764-1886
Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886.
Control Number:
(N) SC7008
Author:
Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886.
Title:
Papers, 1764-1886.
Quantity:
30 boxes (18 cubic ft.).
Arrangement:
Arranged by form of material.
Arrangement:
Correspondence : arranged chronologically.
Historical/biog note:
Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga County, New York, on May 31, 1810. He was educated at Geneva Academy (now Hobart and William Smith Colleges) and studied law in Utica, Oneida County, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 and moved to Albany in 1833. Seymour served as mayor of Utica (1842) and three terms in the New York State Assembly (1842, 1844 and 1845), as speaker in his last term, and as governor (1853-1854 and 1863-1864). He was instrumental in obtaining legislative approval for an Erie Canal-improvement bill in 1845. A conservative Democrat, Seymour, as governor, opposed nativism and vetoed a prohibition bill, which led to his defeat for re-election in 1854. Following his defeat, he moved to a farm in Deerfield, Oneida County.
Historical/biog note:
Seymour was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration, questioning the constitutionality of the Emancipation Proclamation and the wartime limits on freedom of the press and other civil liberties. His speech after the draft riots of July 1863 was widely viewed as treasonous and led to his defeat in 1864. In 1868 a deadlocked Democratic National Convention in New York City nominated Seymour as a compromise candidate for president. Despite carrying New York State and drawing 47 percent of the popular vote, he won only 80 electoral votes to Ulysses S. Grant?s 214. After the defeat he became an elder Democratic Party statesman. He died in Utica on February 12, 1886.
Abstract:
The Horatio Seymour Papers include correspondence dealing with Seymour?s personal and political affairs: account books of business activities; notebooks; telegrams; scrapbooks of material on the Erie Canal; and scrapbooks on political activities and speeches. Correspondents include William Cassidy, George F. Comstock, Horace Day, George F. Miller, Thomas Worth Olcott, and Samuel Tilden.
Finding aids:
Unpublished inventory available in repository and online: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc7008.htm
Indexes:
Index to correspondence available in repository and from link in inventory.
References:
Finding aid reproduced in National Inventory of Documentary Sources, microfiche no.: 3.15.287,
Preferred citation:
Horatio Seymour papers, 1764-1886.
Personal subject:
Cassidy, William, 1815-1873.
Personal subject:
Comstock, George Franklin, 1811-1892.
Personal subject:
Day, Horace H., 1813-1878.
Personal subject:
Miller, George Funston, 1809-1885.
Personal subject:
Olcott, Thomas Worth.
Personal subject:
Tilden, Samuel Jones, 1814-1886.
Corporate subject:
New York (State). Governor.
Subject:
Merchants--New York (State)
Geographic terms:
New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Geographic terms:
Erie Canal (N.Y.)
Geographic terms:
New York (State)--History--1775-1865.
Form/genre terms:
Personal letters. aat
Form/genre terms:
Account books. ftamc
Form/genre terms:
Scrapbooks. ftamc
Electronic access:
Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc7008.htm
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